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Kentucky · Snapshot 09/05/2026

KRS 355.2-603: Merchant buyer's duties as to rightfully rejected goods.

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    (1) Subject to any security interest in the buyer (subsection (3) of KRS 355.2 -711),

    when the seller has no agent or place of business at the market of rejection a

    merchant buyer is under a duty after rejection of goods in his possession or control

    to follow a ny reasonable instructions received from the seller with respect to the

    goods and in the absence of such instructions to make reasonable efforts to sell

    them for the seller's account if they are perishable or threaten to decline in value

    speedily. Instructions are not reasonable if on demand indemnity for expenses is not

    forthcoming.

    (2) When the buyer sells goods under subsection (1), he is entitled to reimbursement

    from the seller or out of the proceeds for reasonable expenses of caring for and

    selling th em, and if the expenses include no selling commission then to such

    commission as is usual in the trade or if there is none to a reasonable sum not

    exceeding ten percent (10%) on the gross proceeds.

    (3) In complying with this section the buyer is held only to good faith and good faith

    conduct hereunder is neither acceptance nor conversion nor the basis of an action

    for damages.

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